by Dan Shanoff, USA TODAY Sports

by Dan Shanoff, USA TODAY Sports

"Just go win this game for me. Don't worry about me. I'm fine. Just go win this game. "

-- Kevin Ware

How can you not root for Louisville?

Up until late afternoon yesterday, that seemed an unlikely sentiment. Who wants to root for Goliath? Who wants to root for the top overall seed of the tournament, a team that has been running roughshod over everyone for the past two weeks? Who wants to root for the obvious?

Wouldn't you rather root for Wichita State, joining the super-exclusive fraternity of just a handful of teams seeded in the bottom half of the tournament that earn their way to the Final Four?

Wouldn't you rather root for Syracuse, which concluded the regular season three weeks ago with the most humiliating loss of the Boeheim Era, only to activate a new level of their zone D?

Wouldn't you rather root for Michigan, sparking memories of the Fab Five by zipping through the South region -- including that stomping of Florida -- and reclaiming national relevance?